We start with a black U.S. Army general named Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) who, in the beginning, looks like a good, respectable possibility for a black president. No scandals in his past at all.

But a white Chessmaster known only as "The Man" (Robert Trumbull) and his evil organization use a drug on the general to brainwash him. Right when he's supposed to be announcing his candidacy, he gives up his dream of politics to run a chain of fried chicken restaurants. It's evil fried chicken, too, but we don't learn that immediately.

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The good secret organization, The BROTHERHOOD, needs to stop this before it goes any farther. But to do that, they must call the great Blaxploitation hero Undercover Brother (Griffin). Undercover Brother is stuck in The '70s, but he knows kung fu.

Undercover Brother is asked to infiltrate the evil Organization undercover. He is given a watch that sprays hot sauce to fight off the potential evil of mayonnaise on white bread. But, once on assignment, he meets an incredibly beautiful blonde (Richards) who appears to be trying to befriend him, and things go bad...

All According to Plan: An alarm goes off at Multinational Inc. and reveals that the BROTHERHOOD agent Undercover Brother has infiltrated the building. Instead of being dismayed, The Dragon Mr. Feather says "The Brotherhood is making their move. Just as I expected."

Anonymous Ringer: Warren Boutwell, a former general and Secretary of Defense who was thought to be considering a Presidential run. AKA General Colin Powell.

Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: Da Chief gives the title character a piece of his mind. Considering that almost every one of those dollars of damage was a) caused by Conspiracy Brother and b) done to The Man's property and plans, it's doubtful that the Chief was too upset and just wanted to invoke this trope.

Chief: Didn't you cause about a bazillion dollars worth of damage? And I sure as hell ain't covering for you! I don't give a damn how sexy you look floating down in your little pants! And as for the rest of you... I just want to say how very proud I am of all of you. Undercover Brother, the world is safe once again thanks to you.

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Smart Brother's interrogation of White She-Devil and Conspiracy Brother's listing of black people not given proper credit.

Artistic License  Gun Safety: After Undercover Brother grabs a shotgun away from Conspiracy Brother, he carelessly swings it around, pointing it at Sista Girl, Conspiracy Brother and the Chief. As an expert and experienced combatant he should have known better.

Beware the Nice Ones: Lance is a Nice Guy, but when called a sissy he tears one man's heart out with his bare hands. Followed by tearing a second man's head (and spinal column) off his body, and squeezing a third man's head so hard with his hands that it bursts.

Big "NO!": A mook does this as Undercover Brother is about to stamp down on him. He lives, but his potato chips weren't as lucky.

Big Red Button: Conspiracy Brother foolishly pushes a large red button labeled "Atomic Core" and starts a Self-Destruct Mechanism that will destroy The Man's headquarters. This forces the Brotherhood's infiltration team to flee for their lives.

Blaxploitation: With a modern twist. Somewhat reconstructed. It's all in good fun, though, as the target demographic this time was white people.

Book Ends: Undercover Brother does a parachute jump at the beginning and end of the movie.

Brick Joke: When Undercover Brother is first revealed, Conspiracy Brother shouts "It's Macy Gray with porkchop sideburns!" After the bank job, a news report mentions that singer Macy Gray was arrested in connection with the job, but released due to lack of evidence.

Lance gestures to a guard and says "Come on!" to a guard before killing him.

Also spoofed during the pre-fight posturing between Undercover Brother and Mr. Feather. They both resort to increasingly elaborate gestures, trying to one-up the other. Undercover Brother wins. And all to the sound of "Beat It".

Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: The title character changes his clothes while jumping through a window. At other times he, Sistah Girl and Penelope Snow change their outfits by having their outer tearaway clothing ripped off of them (or ripping it off themselves).

At the beginning of the movie, before he goes into the bank he wears a parachute under his shirt so that if he has to jump off the top of the building to escape, he'll survive the experience.

He wears two combs in his hair, which he throws at the security guards at the golf club to pin them to the wall.

At the end of the movie, he has to jump off a cliff to avoid being blown up. Sista Girl says "he forgot his parachute", indicating that he will be dashed on the rocks below. However, he deploys mini-parachutes from his pants, saving himself.

Curtain Camouflage: The title character comes home and thinks there's someone hiding behind a curtain because he sees their shoes under it. He pulls the curtain aside to expose them but finds the shoes are empty. Then Sistah Girl shows up from offscreen and puts a gun to his head (she used her shoes as bait to distract him).

Dressed in Layers: Undercover Brother when masquerading as a janitor, and White She Devil before her reveal.

Dumb Blonde: Subverted in that White She-Devil is only pretending to be this.

Easily Forgiven: White She Devil, much to Conspiracy Brother's chagrin - especially when she's made an official Agent.

Conspiracy Brother: What the fuck? Chief! I ain't never seen this bitch in my secret agent classes! I'm still paying the loans off, man! I sleep on a pissy mattress! I ain't got good food to eat! I borrow money for my weed! I quit! That's it. Y'all ain't got Conspiracy Brother Jones to kick around no more! Give me a pillow case... I'm joining the Klan!

During a chase scene a Mook's motorcycle crashes and immediately bursts into flames.

Everything Is Racist: The belief of Conspiracy Brother. It's really something that he's in a movie where there really is a white conspiracy run by The Man to keep black people down, and he still comes off as crazy.

Fighting with Chucks: The title character knows how to use nunchucks as part of his martial artist skills. He also hits himself in the nuts while using them during his fight with Mr. Feather. This may have been a subversion, since the look on his face as Feather charges indicates it was a trick.

Girl-on-Girl Is Hot: Parodied. Sistah Girl and White She Devil get a Designated Girl Fight that somehow manages to end up in the shower. Undercover Brother and a pair of Mooks stop fighting and pull up some chairs and popcorn to watch.

Glove Snap: One of Mr. Feather's minions does this repeatedly, greatly to Mr. Feather's annoyance.

Groin Attack: The title character does it to himself with a pair of nunchucks during his fight with Mr. Feather.

Hair-Trigger Temper: Conspiracy Brother, who breaks into a rant at the mention of various innocuous words. At one point Undercover Brother semi-sarcastically asks if he can just get a list of the words that set him off so he can avoid the rants.

Hollywood Glass Cutter: Played for Laughs when Undercover Brother breaks in through a window. He slices a circle in the window and then taps on it. This causes the entire rest of the window to shatter, leaving the cut-out circle intact.

Mr. Feather and The Man himself want white society to dominate over black society. Both are revealed to use quote-on-quote 'black' euphemisms, showing that they partake in the culture they are trying to subjugate.

Hypocritical Humor: The only reason Lance (a Caucasian) is a member of the BROTHERHOOD is Affirmative Action.

Instant Costume Change: Undercover Brother jumps out of a window while dressed in what can be best described as a nerd disguise. On the other side, he comes out in his normal attire, complete with afro.

Insult Backfire: When Sistah Girl accuses Undercover Brother of Compensating for Something, he plays into it by pointing out that she forgot to mention his "big, black, fuzzy balls" — a rearview mirror decoration, which he then fondles to complete the joke.

At the beginning, Undercover Brother dresses as a janitor (complete with Latex Perfection mask) to infiltrate a bank.

The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. agents pose as the Island Fortress Cleaning Service to infiltrate The Man's Island Base.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Da Chief. He may have a tendency to yell his head off at his employees at the drop of a hat, but he's not afraid to tell them how proud he is of them.

Just Like Robin Hood: Before being recruited to the BROTHERHOOD, Undercover Brother was known as "the Robin Hood of the Hood" and was discovered by the BROTHERHOOD while he was deleting bank records to prevent foreclosure on people's homes.

Karaoke Bonding Scene: After the black Undercover Brother (in his Anton Jackson role) meets the white Penelope Snow, they spend the night at a karaoke restaurant where they sing the song "Ebony and Ivory" together as a sign of their growing love for each other.

Kiai: Parodied, as Undercover Brother shouts the names of black celebrities/musicians while fighting.

Lost in Translation: The movie is notable for being a pain to translate for foreign audiences since many jokes used in the movie only had sense for American viewers, but not for anyone outside the U.S. (like the infamous mayonnaise scene)

Low-Speed Chase: Undercover Brother and Sista Girl are chased by security guards on a golf course, with both groups driving electric golf carts.

The Masquerade: The general public has no idea that two secret groups are locked in a war over racism in the United States: The Man's organization, which promotes white supremacy, and the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., which supports racial equality.

Master of Disguise: As an elderly janitor, a Rastafarian golf caddy, business executive Anton Jackson and James Brown.

May Contain Evil: the drug added to the General's Fried Chicken to make black people act white.

Mind Rape: Undercover Brother (who is black) must infiltrate Multinational Inc., a corporation controlled by The Man's white supremacist organization. To do this, he must become familiar with white culture in order to fit in. Smart Brother uses a technique he calls "Caucasiavision" on Undercover Brother: using electronic goggles to make him watch film about white society. After watching for a while, Undercover Brother freaks out.

Undercover Brother: Make it stop! Make it stop! I see white people. It's too much! Too much! Caucasian overload! Caucasian overload! Caucasian overload! That's too much white for one brother to take.

Nobody Touches the Hair: Undercover Brother is very protective of his Afro, including telling Sista Girl, "Don't touch the hair!"; telling Conspiracy Brother, "Don't touch the 'fro!", and beating up Mr. Feather when he cuts off a piece of it: "You mess with the 'fro, you got to go."

No Party Given: An in-universe discussion of this takes place when the characters muse what party the General will run for President as.

Non-Action Guy: Conspiracy Brother. When Lance has frenzied murders of enemy mooks, Brother can only lamely say they were lucky he didn't get his chance to act.

N-Word Privileges: Conspiracy Brother (who is black) uses the N-word when talking to Conspiracy Brother, who is also black. None of the members of The Man's white supremacist organization (Mr. Feather, The Man himself, White She-Devil etc.) ever use the word, even though, being out-and-out racists, they logically would.

Pistol Pose: The poster and DVD art for the film version have Undercover Brother posing with a gun. Star Eddie Griffin (who plays Undercover Brother) complained about this, noting that the character never uses a gun.

Pistol-Whipping: A security guard at the golf course to our hero, and Conspiracy Brother to Mr. Elias in the island fortress communications room.

The Precarious Ledge: While infiltrating the Mega-Corp Multinational Inc., the title character must make his way along a ledge high up on the outside of a building in order to reach a room where he can download information from a computer.

White supremacist Mr. Feather constantly seems to have to battle to suppress an urge to be one of these. This causes him some stress.

Mr. Feather: You see what's happening, don't you?! How we're being corrupted by their hipper-than-thou fashion and cool slang you can't help but use?!

At the end The Man as well.

Product Placement: Several times in the movie Undercover Brother is shown drinking a Big Gulp (a beverage cup sold by 7-11) full of orange soda.

Punch Catch: Sistah Girl to Conspiracy Brother when he tries to punch Lance in the face.

Punched Across the Room: White She Devil to Sistah Girl and Undercover Brother to Mr. Feather, both times with a kick.

Rant-Inducing Slight: Conspiracy Brother is prone to these at the mention of words so innocuous as "hello".

Rasputinian Death: Mr. Feather is dropped out of a helicopter over the ocean. Just before falling hundreds of feet (the impact alone of which would've killed him instantly) a great white shark leaps out of the water, and eats him.

Reverse Mole: White She Devil, when The Man's guards catch the BROTHERHOOD infiltrators in the Communications Room.

Say It: A Running Gag involves Mr Feather struggling to resist the subversive influence of African-American culture. When he kidnaps singer James Brown, the inevitable happens.

Mr Feather:(Playing with Syringes) So, Mr Godfather of Soul, life as you know it will soon cease to exist. Any... final requests?

Sickening "Crunch!": Subverted. Undercover Brother is about to stomp a Mook who's lying on the ground. We see him stomp and hear a horrible crunching sound as he twists his foot but we don't actually see the stomp connect. Just when you think he's smashed the Mook's head in, the camera looks down and we see that he actually smashed a bag of potato chips. This doesn't make the mook any happier, as he moans that he had just bought them.

Spinning Paper: During a scene showing various ways that black performers are falling under the effect of The Man's mind control drug, one of the warning signs is a newspaper story (John Singleton to remake Driving Miss Daisy) in a spinning paper.

The Stoner: Conspiracy Brother. It's strongly hinted that his paranoia is due to his drug use.

Strawman Political: Parodied like everything else. Conspiracy Brother snaps, "Name one thing the Republican Party has done for black people. ONE!" Smart Brother uses a lengthy "Lincoln was a Republican" rebuttal and seems ready to continue; Conspiracy Brother pauses for a beat, only to continue with "All right, name two thingslately!"

Token White: Lance, who was hired because of affirmative action. Later White She Devil joins as well, over the objections of Conspiracy Brother, who was still paying off his student loans for the training he'd needed to get employed there.

Trailers Always Spoil: One of the trailers specifically said that Penelope Snow was White She Devil, AKA "Black Man's Kryptonite", which was a major reveal/surprise.

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